{"id":186193,"date":"2026-05-07T12:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T12:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/186193\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T12:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T12:23:09","slug":"power-mostly-restored-after-thousands-affected-by-outages-in-northampton-lehigh-counties-lehigh-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/186193\/","title":{"rendered":"Power mostly restored after thousands affected by outages in Northampton, Lehigh counties | Lehigh County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Power has been mostly restored after outages affected thousands of people in Lehigh and\u00a0Northampton counties.<\/p>\n<p>A substation issue had knocked out power for thousands in Northampton County.<\/p>\n<p>At 7:40 p.m., 18,000 people lost power in Northampton County due to an issue with an Easton substation, according to Met-Ed officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All Met-Ed customers had been estimated to have their power restored as of 8 p.m., according to a Met-Ed spokesperson.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At approximately 8:02 p.m., around 800 PPL customers near Queen City Airport in Salisbury Township, Lehigh County, experienced an outage due to equipment failure, according to PPL officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They say that approximately 600 customers were restored within minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>PPL says that crews were sent out to make repairs, and that power was estimated to be restored to the area by 4:30 a.m. on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Power has been mostly restored after outages affected thousands of people in Lehigh and\u00a0Northampton counties. A substation issue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,433,434],"class_list":["post-186193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-lehigh-county","tag-northampton-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}